"I was the only Black person on the set. It was unusual for me to be in a circumstance in which every move I made was tantamount to representation of 18 million people."

-- Sidney Poitier

#Moving Quotes #People Quotes #Black Quotes

“If beating ourselves up worked, we would all be thin, rich, and happy, wouldn't we?”
“I was desperately unhappy trying to adjust to the world.”
“The great white cold walks abroad!”

Source : Richard Hovey (1908). “Along the Trail”
“Faith is mind at its best, its bravest, and its fiercest. Faith is thought become poetry, and absorbing into itself the soul's great, passions. Faith is intellect carried up to its transfigurement.”
“The true nature of the world was weirder than any bizarre fabric that anyone might weave from the warp and weft of imagination's loom.”
“Molly wants to know her father's name," Arch said to them. "Why don't you give her a hint?" His first name with 'splatter,'" said Ripkins. And 'matter'," said Blister. Also 'fatter,'" said Ripkins. Likewise 'chatter'," added Blister. And his surname?" Arch asked. It rhymes with 'that again'," said Ripkins. And 'Flanagan," put in Blister. Also, um...'pad a fin'?" offered Ripkins. Arch and Blister looked at him. 'Pannikin!'" he said proudly. Shut up, shut up, shut up!" Molly screamed. "You don't know what you're talking about!”
“I've made movies that we're very successful that we're a complete surprise, and I've made movies that I thought we're going to be very successful that, you know.”
“I'll have my double chins in privacy.”

Source : "Fictional character: Carlotta Vance". "Dinner at Eight", www.imdb.com. 1922.

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